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Nigel Barden

Nigel Barden started as a wine merchant who now breaks with convention to introduce audiences to the joys of vodka and whisky. Alongside his newspaper columns, Nigel covers food, drink and (strangely) rugby and powerboat racing for the BBC but still finds time to host unusual and highly interactive tastings.

Nigel currently is a food and drink broadcaster, working with both Simon Mayo and Chris Evans on their Sony Gold award winning BBC Radio 2 shows. He is the food correspondent for BBC London. Nigel specialises in promoting British ingredients & artisan producers, particularly in his role as chairman of The Great Taste Awards, Farm Shop and Deli Awards, World Cheese Awards and the British Cookery School Awards.

He works with CellarVie Wines, who run the RFU wine club and in a former life, Nigel was a director of Yorkshire Fine Wines, based at Nun Monkton near York. He grew up on a farm in Lancashire, studied land agency at Cirencester's Royal Agricultural College and worked in Yorkshire as a land agent.

Nigel has a Sicilian wife and 3 boys under 15.

He is also a BBC rugby commentator and has trained and worked as an actor.

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